Category: Notes
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ALC Update
As y’all know, I’m participating in this year’s AIDS/LifeCycle event, raising money to end AIDS, and riding my bike from here to Los Angeles. The ride’s taking place the first week of June. I was required to raise $3500 (did that several months ago); but I set a personal goal of raising $5000 (passed that…
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Book summary feedback request
A colleague has suggested I write a summary of The Book. Over the last few years, I’ve become increasingly aware of the fact that I can be, in a word, verbose. And that my writing is prone to be overly academic in tone. The Book, of course, is an academic book. As I said to…
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more updated social media stuff
Now that we’re a month away from the launch of The Book, I imagine I might be posting more on the internets. But it also occurred to me that over the last couple of months I haven’t really been engaging with social media much. The fact of the matter is that ever since Space Karen…
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Let the shameless self-promotion begin
As something of a (not-really) non-sequitur, I follow a couple of different Buddhist studies groups over on the Facebook hell-site; very often, people post things about their work and start off those posts with (an obligatory?) “Sorry for the self-promotion…” I’ve often wondered about that. On the one hand, there’s something to be said about…
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the book has a cover
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ALC23 Update
As readers know, in 2023 I’m participating in the AIDS/LifeCycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles this June. Seven days, 545 miles to raise money to help end HIV/AIDS and support folks living with it and vital public health services provided by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the LA LGBT Center. In order…
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25% off Zen
Just a quick year-end post to remind everyone that Zen is now 25% off in Humboldt County. Act now! Apart from this utterly absurd but perfectly composed photo of American life, circa 2022, I was also gifted this interesting Buddha image from my mom. We have no idea where it came from, but the lack…
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A giving Tuesday post
The Tuesday after (the U.S.’s) Thanksgiving is popularly known as “giving Tuesday” (#givingTuesday) a day to support causes and non-profits and all the good stuff in the world rather than giving more money to the billionaire narcissists who keep trying to ruin it. So this is just a quick post to remind folks that in…
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Some thoughts on the new boss
In the fall of 1998 I was working in a warehouse in Oakland and living with some friends in San Francisco. My room was basically a closet at the back of the apartment, but it had a loft with room for a futon and enough space for a small desk and my Macintosh Performa. What…